Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Carolin Vesely 6977292 photos Are not porn Awyer defence argues pictures dont serve a sexual purpose by Mike Mclntyre a Winnipeg Man who distributed a col Lection of pictures showing naked Young girls in a variety of poses claims he is innocent of a crime because the images dont depict sexual now a judge must decide whether Lloyd Taylors disturbing computer col Lection violates Canadas controversial child pornography Taylors today trial on Possession and distribution of child pornography ended yesterday with provincial court judge Linda Giesbrecht viewing 36 images that Winnipeg police and the Crown believe Are the photos were beamed from a com Puter onto a Large White screen set up in the Justice officials kept the courtroom open to the Public but took the unusual step of covering the win Dows with paper so people walking by be Able to see the Crown attorney Vic Bellay told Gies Brecht there should be no doubt the Pic Tures Are the dominant characteristics of the photos Are the sexual organs of these girls for a sexual he the Crown claims All of the photos were distributed by Taylor Over the including one of several Young girls touching each others he is charged with four counts of distributing child police say was trading Pic Tures with two people in the United one in Germany and one in eng but Taylors lawyer argued the Pic Tures simply show underage girls in naked poses but do not serve a sexual its a Tricky that for said Chrys no focal Point we dont have any problem defining explicit sexual but that int the Case we say there is no focal Point of sex to these looked at in an objective were not trying to use an artistic Merit his client told police he favoured soft Ore pictures girls in the age Range of 11 to 15 he Giesbrecht has reserved her decision until july Iwanchuk had hoped a supreme court decision earlier this year might help his the country highest court Drew the rage of child abuse advocates when it ruled that pictures taken of children for personal use and explicit written mate rials were excepted from existing child pornography Iwanchuk said neither ruling helps Taylors although both he and the Crown agree it provides some Taylor is also facing Possession of child pornography charges after Winnipeg police vice division officers seized a Laptop computer from his Garfield Street Home in police say it contained about 900 Pic Tures of girls As Young As four years old posing nude and having sex with investigators also seized two videotapes which show children at a nudist Iwanchuk admitted yesterday some of the images Taylor is accused of pos Sessing Are clearly he said Giesbrecht ruling on the distribution charges will help determine the scope of the Possession we will probably end up agreeing on the number he had in his Possession at the end of he at the time of the police said Many of the pictures Likely came from it certainly bothers me that there Are probably 750 victims out there some of the pictures were of the same children who have been exploited and have to live with the knowledge these pictures Are out said Wayne Harri 0 big Guy takes a fall a City firefighter shovels sawdust to clean up a diesel fuel spill from an Earth mover that lost its front Axle and tipped to one Side at the intersection of Grey Street and Talbot Avenue in Elmwood yester Winnipeg police routed traffic around the mid morning task Force tackles Graffiti options include id to buy Spray paint by David Kuxhaus Virginia san Mateo and her Hus band claimed a Small Victory monday night in their ongoing Battle with Graffiti a 17yearold youth was making his Mark on the Side of one of two Balmoral Street apartment blocks managed by the san Mateos when several Alert citizens spotted him in the act around 9 and held him until police the teen has been charged with mis chief in that incident and eight others in which Graffiti has been splashed on downtown my husband keeps cleaning it off but they keep coming san mate maybe it will Bob Johnson of the Winnipeg police service said the citizens should be a lot of people see something happen and absolve themselves of whats going Johnson normally police advise against people taking the Law into their own but Johnson said if there is no threat of Dan Ger police can always use the Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press Stacy Mills surveys Graffiti defacing Balmoral Street apartment the City is in the midst of a Graffiti with tags appearing through out the and for those who think the problem is confined to the City think Deborah Kirby found that out the hard late monday night her fort Rich mond townhouse was blasted with 30 Green paint pellets from a paintball its like somebody sprayed the House with it was very said adding that Bright Green globs of paint were left behind on her police say the attack caused about a new task Force is hoping it can make a formed a few weeks it includes representatives from the the tourism win travel Manitoba and take Pride Tom ethans of take Pride Winnipeg said they Are looking at a number of Ini including i suspending the Drivers licences of those who use cars in drive by tagging i looking at new equipment which could be used to remove Graffiti in Winter pressure washers dont work Well in subzero i requiring those who buy Spray paint to produce identification i getting retailers to keep Spray paint behind the Many cities across North America require anyone buying Spray paint to show photo the City of Chicago has even banned the Sale of Spray except to contractors and people with a demonstrated need for Paul who owns Western paint Wal covering on har grave said he would support tougher Schimnowski said they Only keep a Small amount of Spray paint on the the rest is behind the ethans said the committee will put for Ward its Battle plan by d higher rents fuel prices blamed Wypa Ulmcke Winnipeg landlords have drastically increased the num ber of applications for rent increases above the provincially mandated level because of last Winters record fuel tenants across the City have received notices from land lords informing them owners will seek rent increases above the per cent level the residential tenancies Board set for the current opposing increase Diana Morin said her Roslyn Road apartment will Cost her More because the landlord wants a per cent Shes opposing the increase and organizing tenants in her but property managers say the increases Are inevitable Given High heating fuel Max owner of asteroid property and Secretary of the professional property Man agers association of said landlords absorbed an average increase of to a month More in heating costs per apartment what we just came through was a brutal said Reich has a building on bal moral Street that Cost him More for while last year he Only applied to increase the rent on a few suites above the Provin Cial this year hell be looking at nearly All of the volume of requests will be so High the residential tenancies Branch will be Back logged for said landlords can impose the rent increase As Long As they stamp the notice subject to approval by the residential tenancies said Reich All the landlords Are going to be if they dont go 0 the Winnipeg school division 1 congratulates Leslie gentes who won a prestigious prime ministers award for teaching excellence certificate of achievement for she was chosen for her innovation and creativity in As Sargent Park schools technology gentes has been instrumental in the growth of technology use at the investing in the future i vegas Usa i hot hot hot j hot hot ;